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In the year of the well-publicized woes of Enron, Arthur Andersen and WorldCom, Virginia juries punished fraudulent behavior with three of the largest verdicts in 2002. Of the year’s largest verdicts, the fraud cases — including the runaway top verdict, ...

An Alexandria jury awarded the largest verdict in Virginia history when it found that an online tutoring company had defrauded 13 investors and sales consultants. The jury found that TutorNet.com Inc., a Northern Virginia company, misrepresented its financial strength and ...

Although 2002 has not been a year for blockbuster cases, there have been certain incremental shifts in the law. For lawyers who like to look for such subtleties, the following list of interesting cases reported in the past year may ...

The Virginia State Bar saw two major projects end with different results during 2002. And a third is close to resolution. One big project was approved: A consolidation of the rules that govern lawyer disciplinary proceedings was adopted by the ...

So what was the biggest news story in the Virginia legal world during 2002? This year, we’re going to let you tell us. Below, we have selected 10 significant stories from the past year, along with a brief explanation for ...

The government’s effort to eradicate terrorism has been front-page news from the moment the first plane struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. And while this ongoing story – really, a series of stories with a common thread ...

The 2003 Altman Weil Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey of American corporate law departments was released last week and the annual survey is a good news-bad news proposition. Salaries for corporate lawyers are down. But there have been significant increases ...

Editor’s Note: Below is a list of all the successful candidates who took the July 2002 Virginia Bar Examination. Of the 1,325 people who took the test, 928 passed,for a 70 percent pass rate. Congratulations! A Hdeel Abdelhady, Columbia, MD; ...

You remember signing the loan forms. You knew that somewhere off in the hazy future, you’d actually have to pay the money back. In the meantime, however, you were consumed with passing finals, graduating, landing a job and studying for ...